Word: similaun
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Dates: during 1991-1991
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...headed into the Tyrolean Alps, which run between Austria and Italy. Up high in the mountains, at about 3,200 m (10,500 ft.), something happened -- an accident, a violent blow -- that took his life and left him to be swallowed by the Similaun Glacier. There he lay, locked in a crevasse, buried, frozen, forgotten...
...pair of German climbers, the mummified corpse was identified last week as a rare human specimen from the early Bronze Age, possibly the oldest ever found in Europe. Although hundreds of Bronze and Iron Age bodies have been found in the bogs of northwest Europe, the "Iceman from the Similaun," as he was dubbed by the Austrian press, is much better preserved. It was a find of "extraordinary scientific significance," says Professor Konrad Spindler at the University of Innsbruck, where the Iceman was flown for detailed study...
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